By P. K. Yankey, GNA
Awiaso (W/R), May 10, GNA – Mr Joseph Armah Agyekum, District Chief Executive (DCE) of Ellembelle has condemned acts of vandalism by unknown land guards and assailants who destroyed a new NDC party office under construction at Awiaso junction in the Ellembelle District.
According to him, apart from the court and him as DCE and Chairman of the District Security Council (DISEC), nobody has the right to pull down any structure under any given circumstance.
Unknown assailants wielding guns and machetes, went on the rampage and destroyed a new NDC party office currently under construction at Awiaso junction near Aiyinasi valued at GHc1 million in the midnight of May 07, 2026.
Speaking to journalists at the project site, Mr Armah Agyekum said Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle bought two plots of land in 2017 valued at GHc 20,000 each from the late Chief Nana Boadi.
When the project commenced, the royal family led by Nana Akpanyi Armoo , the Chief of Awiaso and the Abusuakpanyinli Nana Ekeyeboe came in after the death of the late Chief that the land was not sold to Nana Boadi who allegedly sold the land to the MP.
Mr Armah Agyekum said the case was pending in court before it was later withdrawn from court for settlement under the Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism.
Mr Agyekum said when he assumed office as DCE, he told the family that to avoid litigations, the NDC party would pay for the cost of the land again.
According to the royal family, the Party would be given the parcel of land to build its office on some conditions, to which the party executives agreed.
That the party would employ youth of the town in the construction works, assist the town with building materials to build their new palace complex and pay annual royalties to the royal family.
Mr Armah Agyekum said surprisingly, the royal family brought another condition after the party had entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the said parcel of land, signed and sealed.
The condition was that ” the MP and the NDC party in Ellembelle must ensure that the national House of Chiefs gazettes King Kaku Aka III, Paramount Chief of Awiaso Traditional Area as Overlord of Nzema land.
The DCE said it did not fall within his ambit nor the NDC party executives in Ellembelle to see to it that King Kaku Aka III was gazatted.
That development, the DCE noted, might not have gone down well with King Kaku Aka III, and the royal family of Awiaso.
Mr Armah Agyekum observed that “this was not the first time; the structure had been demolished by the people since construction work commenced only to demonstrate their anger and frustration at the party for not coming to terms with their demand”.
Mr Alex Mahama, Ellembelle NDC Constituency Chairman expressed wary about the development.
Speaking to NDC branch chairmen at Awiaso, he cautioned that the action might warrant unpleasant reactions such as arrest and detention if the perpetrators were caught.
GNA
Edited by Justina Hilda Paaga/Kenneth Odeng Adade
Reporter: P. K. Yankey